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double take

误解,误读,误解了,误导

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a rapid or surprised second look, either literal or figurative, at a person or situation whose significance had not been completely grasped at first: His friends did a double take when they saw how much weight he had lost.

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  • It might make you do a double take, but one of the public amenities is a water feature that is, no lie, a giant puddle.

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"

  • ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

  • Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

  • Clickbait title notwithstanding, Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!

  • Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.

  • Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”

  • But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.